{"type":"video","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Dailymotion","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com","title":"Operation Shangri-La: The WW2 Glider Rescue Behind Enemy Lines","description":"Three wounded survivors, a jungle valley cut off by 14,000-foot mountains, and a rescue plan so dangerous even the pilots wrote goodbye letters: Operation Shangri-La turned one World War II crash into an impossible glider rescue. After a C-47 sightseeing flight over Shangri-La Valley slammed into a mountain, Margaret Hastings, John McCollum, and Kenneth Decker were left alive in hostile terrain, with burns, broken bones, and no way out.What follows is one of the strangest military history stories of the Pacific War: paratrooper medics jumping into stone-age territory, soldiers hacking a 500-foot airstrip out of jungle by hand, and the first combat glider snatch ever used to pull real people out of the valley. The rescue depended on courage, timing, and cooperation with the Dany people who helped the Americans survive long enough to be found.If you enjoy World War II stories, military history documentaries, survival stories, and incredible rescue operations, this historical narration delivers one of the most unbelievable true wartime missions ever attempted. It is ideal for listeners searching for WW2 history, Pacific theater stories, forgotten heroes, and extreme survival tales.SEO: World War II rescue story, Operation Shangri-La, military history documentary, Pacific theater history, WW2 survival story, glider rescue, glider snatch, historical narration, forgotten heroes of World War II, wartime rescue mission, true military history, jungle survival story.","author_name":"WW2 Records","author_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/WW2Records","width":480,"height":269,"html":"